Offtopic noise: Re: BBC iPlayer viewers now need a...

Shevek shevek at shevek.co.uk
Tue May 17 05:32:33 PDT 2016


On 17 May 2016 at 08:48, C E Macfarlane <c.e.macfarlane at macfh.co.uk> wrote:
> Please see below ...
>
> www.macfh.co.uk/CEMH.html
>
>>     -----Original Message-----
>>     From: Shevek [mailto:shevek at shevek.co.uk]
>>     Sent: 17 May 2016 08:33
>>     To: c.e.macfarlane at macfh.co.uk
>>     Cc: David Woodhouse; get_iplayer
>>     Subject: Re: Offtopic noise: Re: BBC iPlayer viewers now need a...
>>
>>     However, now that I see it at the top of _every_ post you make where
>>     you make an inline reply, with your "Please see below ..." inserted I
>>     must now agree that you are simply spamming your URL.
>
> It's put where it is automatically by Outlook.

Outlook does not put in the " Please see below ..."

>
> Of course, if I was contributing to a newsgroup using a reader such as
> Agent, it wouldn't happen like that, it would appear correctly at the bottom
> of each post.
>
>>     I know that you will not change your behaviour and do not expect you
>>     to, this is not an opening for discussion, merely adding my
>>     tuppenceworth.
>
> So why contribute to the OT noise then?
>
> Again, rather as before, it seems like someone who's losing or just lost an
> argument is picking on irrelevant trivia to moan about rather than
> gracefully accepting defeat.
>

Er, did you actually bother reading to the end of my reply where I did
reply to your points?



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